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Lorde says she only started getting credited properly with ‘Solar Power’
Lorde has discussed not being credited properly for her creative input throughout her career, and how that changed with ‘Solar Power’. READ MORE: Lorde: “I feel like I can see my world and myself a lot clearer now” Lorde spoke to Euphoria‘s Hunter Schafer on the A24 podcast Divine Frequency. Talking about the video for ‘Solar Power’ (which she co-directed alongside Joel Kefali) Lorde said: “I had written all the treatments and helped produce it, because I was super, super involved. It was so much fun to be on that set.” Schafer then asked Lorde if she’d ever directed...
Watch Måneskin make their riotous ‘SNL’ debut with two-song set
Måneskin made their debut on Saturday Night Live last night (January 22) by performing their cover of ‘Beggin’’ alongside ‘I Wanna Be Your Slave’ – watch footage below. READ MORE: Måneskin live in London: embrace the Eurovision winners’ rock’n’roll circus Introduced by special guest Will Forte, the Italian rock group delivered a riotous performance of The Four Seasons’ 1967 song as well as an energetic, groove-led version of their own 2021 single that saw frontman Damiano David paying homage to Blur‘s ‘Song 2’. It’s the latest studio performance from the Eurovision winners who in recent months have performed at...
Listen to Pussy Riot’s new electropop single ‘Punish’
Pussy Riot have shared a new electropop single titled ‘Punish’, co-written with Swedish singer Tove Lo. The track arrived on Thursday (January 20), contrasting sugary pop vocals with cutting lyrics, such as the lines “I gonna tie you up / I might slit your throat” and “I’m gonna force you down / I punish you“. It was accompanied by an animated music video, courtesy of graphic and digital designer Ksti Hu. The clip features a grotesque pig-like man who drinks from a vagina fountain, before Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s digital avatar appears and stands on him with a giant heeled boot....
Deaf Havana announce first album since becoming a two-piece, ‘The Present Is A Foreign Land’
Deaf Havana have revealed their first LP since becoming a two-piece is on the way, titled ‘The Present Is A Foreign Land’. The sibling duo made the announcement on Friday (January 21), sharing the record’s first single ‘Going Clear’. A deeply personal song, ‘Going Clear’ deals with themes of substance abuse and sobriety, which frontman James Veck-Gilodi had been struggling with for years. “‘Going Clear’ is a song I started writing a long time ago but it wasn’t until recently that I really realised it’s a song purely about addiction and the effect it has on loved ones and...
Conan Gray shares a warning on new single ‘Jigsaw’
Conan Gray has shared a new single in ‘Jigsaw’, another preview of his upcoming second album – scroll down the page to listen to it now. The track marks the pop star’s first material of the year, following several singles being released in 2021. READ MORE: Conan Gray talks NME through his ‘Firsts’ “You took every part of me, all the things you need / Then the rest you discard,” he sings on ‘Jigsaw’, backed by big rock guitars. “I look in the mirror, now I’m just a jigsaw.” Advertisement “I wrote ‘Jigsaw’ originally as a bit of a diary entry...
Ho99o9 return with new Travis Barker-produced track ‘Battery Not Included’
Ho99o9 have returned with a new song called ‘Battery Not Included’, which was produced by Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. The duo – comprised of theOGM and Eaddy – last released new material last August with their 3TEETH collaboration ‘Paralyze’. READ MORE: Noise-punk masters Ho99o9: “The good thing with us is that we don’t give a fuck” Now, Ho99o9 have shared a taste of their upcoming second album, which will arrive this spring. ‘Battery Not Included’ sees the band veer from full-on punk onslaught to something more tender and softer, and back again. Advertisement “There’s only so much mental & physical...
Halestorm members unharmed after tour bus fire
Halestorm have confirmed that they were unharmed and safe after their tour bus caught fire in the middle of the night last week. The US rock band just completed a handful of dates with Evanescence across the east coast of America yesterday (January 21), but the short tour didn’t go entirely smoothly. Guitarist Joe Hottinger posted a photo of the burnt-out interior of the bus on Instagram on Thursday (January 20). “Old Halestorm had a night for the books. We were all in our hotel rooms last night and we woke up to our bus burning down at 3AM,”...
Adele FaceTimes fans to apologise for Las Vegas residency postponement
Adele has FaceTimed fans who went to Las Vegas to see the opening nights of her residency to apologise for postponing the shows. The singer announced on Instagram on Thursday (January 20) that the residency would no longer start the next day. “We’ve tried absolutely everything we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you, but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and COVID,” she said. READ MORE: Adele – ‘30’ album review: dependable pop titan finally mixes things up Now, fans who were meant to attend this weekend’s concerts have shared...
UK could soon be left with just 5,000 nightclubs, according to study
The UK could soon be left with just 5,000 nightclubs in operation across the country, according to a new study. The findings were made by two hospitality-focused software companies, Stampede and StoreKit, using data obtained from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). READ MORE: Music venues and nightclubs “on the brink of collapse” and demand immediate” government action The results showed that, despite an uptick in registered hospitality businesses since 2019, the UK’s nightlife sector is in decline. Between 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, the number of pubs, bars and clubs in the UK dropped, continuing a trend that has seen businesses...Recent Posts
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